In other words, can you top out Bluesky's byte limit by writing in a human language, not relying on emoji or proto-emoji like ☪? And if not, what human text comes closest— has *largest* ratio of byte-length to grapheme-length?
I'm guessing the leading candidates would be:
- Vietnamese, as far as I know the diacritic-est language on earth;
- Chinese, assuming you can stick only to four-byte characters;
- Archaic korean— oh, but this one's *complicated*, so I'll have to explain in the next post—
@mcc i'm not sure that these count as a single grapheme (and nothing on my computer supports this part of the standard, so i can't easily check), but it looks like you can combine a whole bunch of ancient egyptian characters into a single glyph with egyptian hieroglyph format controls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Hieroglyph_Format_Controls this page https://mjn.host.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk/egyptian/res/js/testsuite_uni.html has examples of nine code-point stretches that appear to render as a single glyph, which I think works out to 36 bytes in utf8?
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